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Comment on “Differential Effects of the Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Audiovisual Stimuli on Cross‐Modal Spatial Recalibration”
Author(s) -
Vroomen Jean,
Stekelenburg Jeroen J.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
european journal of neuroscience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.346
H-Index - 206
eISSN - 1460-9568
pISSN - 0953-816X
DOI - 10.1111/ejn.15001
Subject(s) - stimulus (psychology) , psychology , modal , cognitive psychology , communication , chemistry , polymer chemistry
Abstract Bruns et al. (2020) provide new research that suggests that the ventriloquism after‐effect (VAE: an enduring shift of the perceived location of a sound toward a previously seen visual stimulus) and multisensory enhancement (ME: an improvement in the precision of sound localization) may dissociate depending on the rate at which exposure stimuli are presented. They reported that the VAE, but not the ME, was diminished when exposure stimuli were presented at 10 Hz rather than at 2 Hz. To the authors, this suggested that different neural structures underlie the VAE and ME. In our view, however, this needs to be tested more extensively because alternative and simpler explanations have not yet been checked.